Dave Foley

Born on Jan. 4, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Foley was raised by his father, Michael, a steamfitter, and his mother, Mary, a homemaker. He began writing comedy in high school and dropped out in the early 1980s in order to join the Second City Comedy Troupe in Toronto, where he studied improvisation and met future Kids in the Hall member Kevin McDonald. Named after an old Sid Caesar joke, Foley and McDonald teamed up with comedians Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and later Scott Thompson to form The Kids in the Hall in 1984, and began performing regularly. The troupe split early on after McKinney and McCulloch were courted by Lorne Michaels to write for the "Saturday Night Live." Foley we... Continue Bio >>